Former LIZ-2/A-16 DEW/NWS Radar Site (Point Lay, AK)

 former air force base, early warning radar

Established in 1955 as an Auxiliary radar site in the LIZ Sector of the DEW Line, the LIZ-2 or Point Lay radar site operated as a long-range DEW Line radar site for 34 years before being deactivated in 1989. During this time, LIZ-2 also functioned as one of two direct links in the DEW Line with the White Alice Communications System (WACS) via a 97 mile shot to the LIZ-1/Cape Lisburne Long Range Radar Station to the Southwest.

With its mission transferred to a successor short range radar site in 1989, the station became part of the North Warning System and the Alaska Radar System, retaining its LIZ-2 designator and gaining the A-16 callsign in the process. Equipped with AN/FPS-124 radar systems, the site operated autonomously under the control of the 611th Air Support Group out of Elmendorf Air Base as the Westernmost station in the North Warning System for five more years before the station was declared redundant and shut down in 1995. Remaining largely idle and mothballed thereafter, the site was razed and remediated during "Operation Clean Sweep" of its entire infrastructure, with the sole exception of two warehouse buildings which were being used by local businesses for storage.

Site info and photos:
lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/liz2.htm